North Bay Business Journal

  • Wine: Cecchetti wine sales rise 39%; top North Coast pruners; what is an intern?

    March 14th, 2011

    Sonoma-based Cecchetti Wine Co. reported that it had its third year of volume sales growth. Roy Cecchetti’s goal of making lower-priced wines has resulted in 200,000 cases sold in 2010, a 39 percent increase from 2009. The winery is projecting sales of 250,000 cases total this year. … Winners from vineyard pruning contests in Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties. … A California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Labor Standards Enforcement opinion letter has added new wrinkles to the quandary over whether student interns have to be paid at least minimum wage as employees, according to Jennifer Phillips, an employment and real estate attorney with Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty in Santa Rosa. … Graton-based custom winemaker Sonoma Wine Co., which now produces more than 5 million cases of wine from six facilities in Sonoma and Napa counties, inked a deal with Sebastopol-based Winesecrets to provide services to Sonoma Wine’s 30 clients. … Golden State Overnight and FedEx expand direct-shipping services. … Bill Hambrecht teams with Paul and Heath Dolan and Phil Hurst in the H.D.D. wine group venture. … Dry Creek Vineyard entered a sales and marketing agreement with Sonoma-based V2 Wine Group, which will manage Dry Creek’s distribution nationwide.

  • Electrical contractor shifts to solar

    June 7th, 2010

    GRATON – Electrical and general contractor Warren Brown sees brighter prospects for his 14-year-old construction company in designing and installing solar electricity systems and is shifting his focus to that market.

  • Red Car sees pinot as Graton’s future

    February 22nd, 2010

    GRATON – Red Car Wine, a boutique producer of Sonoma County wines, this summer plans to complete its relocation of production from Southern California to this west county community to be closer to source vineyards.

  • Who’s Who in Independent Wine Companies

    June 29th, 2009

    What follows are brief introductions to the top leaders of independently owned wine companies from the Business Journal’s Independently Owned Wineries list, published in March, and the Wine Companies list, published in this issue.

  • Custom winemakers expanding in Hopland

    December 15th, 2008

    HOPLAND – Custom vintner RB Wine Associates is coming off a $7 million expansion and upgrade that allowed a major sparkling-wine label to move in for harvest this year, one of a handful of sizable contract winemaking facility projects in progress around the North Coast.

  • New tool for winery waste cuts costs, cleans up

    August 25th, 2008

    WINDSOR — The surge and strength of wastewater from winemaking vexes vintners in sensitive environmental areas such as the North Coast, but a treatment system going into a multimillion-dollar boutique winery nearing completion in this Sonoma County town might provide a solution not only for wineries but also for homebuilders, rural homeowners and mariners.

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